The car is a way off being ready, with the first engineering prototype not yet built. Callum will be responsible for bringing the design to life, both sculpting the carbon bodywork as shown, and integrating the electrical systems – battery, motors, cooling and control electronics.
As for when we’ll see the finished item? Hard to say. The battery tech is due to go into production in early 2024. That and the design of the car are fairly far along, given it’s already undergone fast charging testing up to 2,000 cycles without significant losses. The promise is an immediate application and rapid scale-up, at a lower up-front cost, weight and using fewer raw materials.
It all sounds promising and fittingly, Lotus-like. Quite what the thoughts on this will be over at Hethel, where Lotus is undergoing an EV transformation all of its own, we can only speculate.